The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-10 00:00:00

came forward, as his father had done for thirty or forty years, as the friend and advocate of the education of the poor, on liberal and Christian principles, that still the public on that occasion taught him that much as they esteemed those good deeds, they did not forget that upon this great subject of negro emancipation he had not done his duty, and therefore their ardour and attachment was rather paralised.—(Cheers.) History, in all ages, demonstrated that in a good cause steady perseve rance would be crowned with ultimate success. Let the people petition from every locality in the country—let them, by conversation with their friends, prevent any diminution of their past zeal or former ardour—and •hen the flame would burn more pure and bright, until all the evils of which they complained should be dispelled, and the great good which they had pledged themselves to accomplish should be happily obtained.— (Cheers.) Mr. Under Sheriff WIRE said there was one remark made at the be ginning of this meeting, which, he trusted, would be reiterated from time to time until the subject had sunk so deeply into the hearts of the people of England that they would make it their daily meditation until they had abolished slavery altogether.—(Cheers.) The venerable gentle man who addressed them first said that slavery was injurious to the slave and alike injurious to the holders of slaves— it was a system that was doubly cursed—it cursed him who Nas the object, and it cursed those who were the holders.— (Cheers.; In every country and in every age where it had prevailed it had always been accompanied by moral degradation on the one hand— by misery on the other. Under the most modified forms, under the best dispensations, and under the divine law it had been proved to be a curse to the people who had encouraged it. The history of our colonies verified the remark more and more, for from the first introduction of slavery to the present hour it had been an accumulation of human suffering on the one hand and degradation on the other. If this were true, it was their duty as men and as Christians to do all they could to abolish a system which was so cursed in its operation.—!Cheers.) The resolution which he had the honour to second spoke of a contract sup posed to have been made by the Legislature of this country, and on this contract he wished to make a few remarks. Let them look at the history of the Act of Parliament passed four years ago to abolish slavery altogether, and see how it was obtained. After more than thirty-five years of incessant labour by the greatest and wisest men this country had produced, Parliament at last consented to pass the Act for the abolition of slavery, and rather than have the opposition of the planters and others who were interested in the continuance of slavery it was arranged that twenty millions of money should be pail to pur chase the liberty of the slaves, in order th_A the planters mi4ht be ill. vested of all plea by which he could seek to held the slave whom he had purchased. The nation and the Parliament consented to pay that money to redeem their brethren from bondage, and they had a right to see that the object had been attained. But he agreed with Lords Den_ man and Brougham that no contract could be made for the flesh and blood, bones and sinews, body and soul of human beings—(Applause.) In what part of the resolutions did they find that right bestowed ?—(Ap plause.) They had no right to make that contract.— (Hear ) The negroes were not party to the contract, if there was one. The object of the ap prenticeship clause was and must be to fit him for freedom—to make him able to work for himself ; it was, acc.)rding to Lord Stanley, a transition state from the horrors of slavery to the blessings of freedom. But the planters having got the 20,000,000/. which redeemed them from mortgage and increased the value of their estates, making them worth more without the slaves than they were before with them— (Hear, hear;—in every one of the anticipations of Lord Stanley, the stave-owners had frustrated the objects of the Emancipation (Hear, hear.) He referred to the Parliamentary evidence, that their apprentices were still flogged and tortured as before the so.called emancipation, and amongst other tortures he described the horrible treadmill of the West Indies, upon which pregnant and aged women were put, and were brt.tally flogged.—(Great indigna tion.) The tteatment which the negroes were now undergoing was ca'- culated not to fit them for freedom, but to prepare them for discon tent, revenge, outrage, and insurrection.--(Hear, hear, hear.) The planter had not now the interest iu prolonging the life of the appren tiee which formerly he had in the life of the slave; and therefore he did ail in his power to render him incapable of enjoying freedom when the day of his liberation should arrive. It was the intention of the Act that the domestic affection df the appprcntices should not be violated ; but, on the contrary, the husband and wife were confined in different places—and the wife was flogged in the presence of the husband, and the husband in the presence of the wife. The Justices who were sent out to protect the negroes have been harassed by actions, and mulcted in penalties which they were unable to pay; or were ca joled by the attentions and hospitalities of the planter to do inju,tice to the negroes. The consequence was, the grossest inequality in the puniahmenta—to the slaves fines of labour and time, which render the provisions of the Act for his advantage altogether nugatory—to the matter fines of money, utterly inadequate to make him observe the aw—(Hear, hear)—and those money fines went into the public reasury, and the injured negroes received no compensation.—(He ar, bear.) But nothing would ever put down slavery until the new slave traie, in transporting Hill Coolies to the Slaurit:us and the West hi kes. •eaa prohibited. He appealed to the mothers and daughters of England, and to the young men atm, to use every exertion to put an end to Slavery and slave dealing in every form. As to the statement that the nea7oes were unfit for freedom, he referred to the testimony of Lords tileneig and Sligo to prove that the negro was docile, peaceful, in_ slustrious, and religicua and perfectly at for freedom. Although the example of Lord Sligo and sir. Hankey would practically put an end to Slavery in Jamaica, he would rather see it done by law. He should wish to see the slave emancipated, not by the haal-wrung concessions of the planter, but by the philaryhrople zeal of• the British people.— (Applause.) It was the duty of the friends of the negro throughout the country to allow no political motive to induce them to vote for any men who would not vote for the negroes—for any Iran who was not disposed to give liberty to any portion of mankind was unfit to legislate for a free people. Tim Learned Genthaman sat down amidst reiterated applause. Mr. ALEXANDEI!, i t prupwing a petition to both Houscs of Parliament prayins for the immediate abo!it ion of slavery, and the adoption of the sill int:ix:meet by Sir George Strick?and, said that the Abo:ition Society had received the most cheering accounts from all quarters, of the excellent erects produced by the numerous meetings that had taken and were taking place throughout th 3 country.—(Cheers-) Lie was ghd the present meeting had taken plate, as it would chew that the city of London was not backward in the cause of humanity He w,:s sorry, however, to say that one of the Members for the city was against their cause, but as long as they had such men as Grote, Patti atm, ;Ind W cod, to advocate ti;;.ir c.arte, they could not fail.—(Che,re.) The Hon. Gentleman after deprecating the conduct of. the Ministers id Cisettarging Lord James Fitzroy from the Queen's Household, be cause Mitts vote on this question proceeded in an eloquent strain to de nounce t! - :e lrlth P.fernbers whom he described as having shamefully deserted the cause of freedom ? en Sir George Strickland's motion. He wished the present question to he considered, not as one of party, but of humanity. The Hon. Member concluded an eloquent speech which we regret want of spate compels us to omit by proposing the adoption of the petition. Mr. Batt, second,2d the motion. The petition was then unanimouily adopted, and the rneeting broke up DORCHESTER LABOURERS. MEETING AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR. A meeting was held last night at the Crown and Anchor, to consider the means of establishing the Dorchester Labourers in independence. Shortly alter eight o'clock, The Secretary informed the meeting that T. Wakley, Esq. M.P., who was ;Announced to take the Chair, was engaged et the House of Com mons (on Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill) and would not be able to attend. He moved that Mr. Saul do take the Chair. The motion was carried by acclamation, and Mr. Saul accordingly took the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said he we; happy to meet so numerous an assembly, to aid in the good cause. Their ardour must not cool, but be rather redoubled on behalf of the wives and families of the Dorchester labou ers. Let them bear in mind that it was the force ofpublic opinion alone that, in the recal of their brethren, gained the triumph of humanity, and justice—(Cheers)—and that public opinion would ever prevail, whether under Whig or Tory rule.—(Cheers.) It was an old saying, that the voice of the people was as strong as the voice of the Deity.--(Cheers.) It 'was to be wished that the voice of the people was more powerfully ex pressed against injustice and oppression than at present.—(Hear, hear.) Still it was gratifying, so far as it went, to find that those who had been so unjustly persecuted, had by the united voice of their brethren been brought home to their wives and families.—(Cheers.) But there was a necessity to exert themselves yet farther, to secure their partial victory. (Cheers.) The Secretary would now read the report of the Committee, from which the object of the meeting would be more clearly gathered. The SECRETARY read the report of the " Central Dorchester Com rnittee"—previous to which two of the Dorchester labourers, George Loveless and J. Bryan, appeared on the platform. They were received with the most tremendous cheering. The report stated that the wives and families of the Dorchester labourers had been in great penury and and distress after the labourers had been sent out of the country. To relieve their distress a subscription was entered into, by which 9001. had been raised—(Cheers)—of this sum 3501. had been expended. The Dorchester labourers had returned it because the object of the Committee was to fix on:some plan for giving them the means of obtaining a decent and respectable livelihood. It had been considered the best way waalci be to settle them on land—to give each labourer five acres—by .!. 1 :e cultivation of which, with industry and care, they might maintain Chemselves and families. The cost of purchasing thirty acres of lair d would, at 301. per acre, be 0001. The expense of stocking each Portion of land would be 300/. more—a total of 1,200/. To meet tt . s estimate there was in the hands of the treasurer of the Comr iittee 550/., which, by various other items, would be raised to 670/,—(Hear, and loud cheers.) For the remainder an appeal must be Made to the liberality of the working classes.—(Cheers.) A penny tribute from 150,000 persons would raise more than the required sum. The SECRETARY stated that application had been made to the Lon. don Literary Institution for the loan of their theatre to hold the meeting In, which was refused.—(Hisses, and groans.) It having been moved and seconded, the Report was received and unanimously adopted. Mr. VINCENT rose, amidst much cheering, to move the first resolu. tion. He said, every working man must be proud of this meeting ; every man who is not a Whig must rejoice at the conduct of the work. big classes from the first moment the Dorchester labourers were made victims of by a liberty professing Government down to the meeting this night—(Loud cheers). We have met to night to do justice to those who have suffered for us—(hear)—to men who have been deeply wronged by an accursed system of misrule, under which the population of this nation has groaned from time immemorial—(Loud cheers.) Let us review briefly the circumstances of this case. Just previous to the transportation of the Dorchester men events of an extraordinary nature had occurred throughout Europe--(Hear, hear). A neighbour. ing country, France, had made a glorious physical effort to rid itself of Its oppressors—(Loud cheers). The effect produced by that momentarily brilliant, but, alas, finally u nsuccssful revo lution, was tremendous—(llear, hear). People hitherto le thargic, sprung at once into activity—proclaiming to listening multitudes those great democratic truths which will ere long effect the werld's emancipation.—(Loud cheers.) The British people, ripe for change, became the dupes of flaming Whig orators—designing knaves ! who, under the specious pretence of liberty, sought power and emolu ment for themselves, degradation and slavery for the people.—(Loud cheering.) The working classes, who had learnt something during this mock Reform struggle—who had seen kings totter and fall from their, thrones—(Cheers)—resolved to knit themselves firmer together in the bond of union. —(Cheers.) The Consolidated Union was formed. The . hypocritical Whig Government became alarmed ; and how did they act under this alarm? They did not, as they ought to have done, pounce upon and imprison the principal and active leaders of the Union re sident in London.—(Hear.) They dared not do it—(Loud cheers)—but they sent their tools down to the little village of Tolpuddle, and there selected six poor, unknown, inoffensive labourers, men who had been guilty of the high crime and misdemeanour of endeavouring to pre vent the reduction of their wages from seven to six shillings per week.—(Sham.) The Whigs thought that as these men were un known, the working classes would feel no sympathy fur them—(Hear) —and they hoped by this magnanimous proceeding, to spread dismay and ruin amongst the unions. Miserable fools I How: have the results blasted their expectations!—(Loud cheering.) You assen.bled forthwith, to petition for their return—and though your efforts were not at first crowned with success, the presence of Loveless and Aryan to-night, bears proud testimony to the efficacious vigour of your :,,, Tltati `" i • — (Loud and continue I cheering) Y o u nobly subscribed - ? ne Y , and comfortably ma i n t a i n ed the wives and families of these injure .I men .-_(Hear,) No doubt this was tall and wormwood to their oppressor s; avid the Whigs, at length, compelled by circum stances (for th ey never do a ood thing without compulsion) par doned the men.—(Cheers) Why ) did they pardon them ? tell you.—(Hear.) It happened that that unsuspected, spotless piece of human clay, the Duke of Cumberland —(Hisses and groans)—com. muted a crime the same in nature as the one for which the Dor. cheater men were punished ; with this addition, that he was guilty of high treason, and they were n ot , — (Tremendous cheering.)—Now, the Whigs had not the pluck to send Cumberland to the gallows—(Loud cheers)--so they pardoned the Dorchester men.—(Cheers.) On their return you hailed them by a procession through the streets of the first city in the world.—(Hear.) Now, no doubt, you think you have done your duty.—(Hear.) Ycu may think so, but there are some folks who think otherwise. There is one who does the "leading" business for that " best possible public instructor," the Morning Advertiser. — (Groans.) He tells us that instead of welcoming the men to their homes as we did on Easter Monday, we should have been better by our fire sides, or enjoying the festivities of Greenwich Fair l—(Roars of laugh ter.) Let me whisper something into the ears of this sage adviser, and commentator :—We have too long sat by our firesides—(Cheers) — while our kind rulers have been busy plundering us; stripping us not only of every vestige of freedom, but of almost the commonest neces saries of life—(Cheers)—whilst we, good, easy souls, have too long received in return the amusement of Greenwich and other fairs. — (Loud cheers.) You were denounced as scurvy knaves, disorderly va gabonds, drunkards, and thieves, because you honoured men of your own order.—(Hear, hear.) Why, time was when you only left your fire sides to block up the public streets to look at Royalty when it choosed to mock a nation's misery by a display of wealth and splen dour wrung from an impoverished people's toil.—(Cheers.) But then you were called wise, virtuous, intelligent and loyal:—(Loud cheers.) But when you have your own jubilee —your own festival—when, in short, you are loyal to yourselves, do homage to labour, and forget for a time that Queens, Kings, and Aristocrats exist—(Loud and repeated cheering)—then the " best public instruction" steps in, and gravely tells you it is wrong. And yet, time again will shortly come when this public instructor will expect you to leave your firesides, to throng somewhere in the vicinity of Westminster to see a young lady walk or ride to a certain abbey there, to undergo the highly important ceremony of having a Crown stuck upon her young head.—(Laughter and cheers.) Yes, this " public instructor" will expect you to go to look at monkeys dressed up to imitate the gods--(Cheers)—to look at stars, ribbons and garters, as I should go to a theatre to see a melo-dramatic show (Cheers.) But let me whisper —we shall take his other advice upon this occasion—we shall sit by our firesides—(Loud cheers)—we shall delay our next precession until the return of the deeply injured and basely calumniated the Glasgow Cotton-spinners—(Loud and long eheering and clapping of hands)—again to pour forth in countless thousands to welcome men to their homes again who are of far more utility to their fellow.crratures than all the Queens and Kings that ever reigned in the world. —(Loud cheering.) I don't advise you who feel the advantage of our blessed Constitution not to be loyal on the ensuing Coronation—such of you who feel that every thing is as it ought to be —that you have plenty of labour, high wages, cheap food, cheap know ledge, and no taxes—(Laughter)—will, of course, be there—(pearl—but such of you as feel with me, that our whole system is one of injustice and corruption—one which, from the top to the bottom, requires revision and reconstruction, will stay at home, instruct your children in their future duties, sow in their minds principles which will enable them in after days to work for the common liberty and happiness of their country— (Cheers)—and if you must raise a loyal shout, let it be " God save the Queen !—and kings!" (For I'm sure the people won't do so much longer) Methinks I hear a little bird that sings, The people bye and bye will be the stronger." —(Tremendous cheering.) The resolution I now offer to you proposes that our six brothers should be placed in farms upon the land. Mr. Vincent here entered into a detail on the duty of the working-classes carrying on the work until the men wese placed in a position indepen. dent of their oppressors. He eulogised the conduct of the men; their character; and concluded a long and energetic speech as follows—" On all these occasions we should look at the cause or our evils—we should ask :ourselves, how it is that we are continually compelled to act upon the defensive—(Hear)—todofend ourselves against unjust at tacks—and we shall find it is because we have no political power in the country.—(Loud cheers.) That great and exclusive trades' union, the House of Commons, is always at work against us. We must be repre sented in that House—it is our only security and hope.—(Cheers.) Let us, then, go on increasing in unity and moral power—let us stimulate the sluggish portion of our fellow-men into activity—let us proclaim throue,hout the land that we will wring universal suffrage from our rulers —(Loud cheers)—and, believe me, by such united activity, the day is not distant when we shall establish a Government divested of all aristo cratic fooleries—which, doing injustice to none, will give knowledge, liberty, and happiness to all,—(Loud and repeated cheering ) 7,1 r. PRIOR seconded the resolution with much pleasure. They (the working classes) were called upon to act strenuously in favour of the Dorchester Labourers, in order to show their reprobation of the cow ardly and treacherous conduct of the Whigs, who had attacked these poor men, net for thepurpose of punishing them, put of putting down the working classes, and putting an end to the Trades' Unions. Without those unions the working classes must be trampled on by the other classes —they could do no good fez themselves unless they were firmly united, aild the only plan was to have unions in every trade. Surely it was the duty of the working classes to make a firm att:mpt to get rid of those laws, under which the Dorchester labourers had suffered so nin ch persecution—under which they had been sent into slivery. Those who forbid their being united among themselves, forbade them justice.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The men of Dublin—the working men of Dublin had shewn a noble example in the manner they had treated the arch-apostate O'Connell—(Groans and cheers)—it was an example that out to be followed by both Scotland and England. Their unions were formed merely far the purposes of mutual protection, and any one who had the. hardihood to denounce them for such conduct would deserve the same treatment as O'Connell. Mr. TCOMBY begged to remind the working classes that the Tories were as great enemies to them as it was possible for the Whigs to be, at,d had it not been for the support of the Tories, the Whigs would never have dared to carry out the punishment of the men who had been re stored to their wives and families by the noble conduct of the working classes gencraLy. The conduct of the Governmcnt with respect to the Glasgow cett.;:n spinners showed the necessity for the continued activity and vigi!arce of the working classes. The Resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. MOORE had bern intrusted with a resolution to propose, and he was happy to say it required little eloquence to support it. It was— " That to enable the Dorchester Committee to carry the foregoing reso. lution into cfrect, by adding to the funds already in band, this meeting earnestly recommend that a penny subscription be entered into through out ;he United Kingdom, to be called the Dorchester Labourers' Farm Tribute,' and that •all sums thus collected be forwarded to the Trea surer of London Committee, on or before the 25th day of June, 1835." If all who were then present would only give a pull, a long pull, and a strong pull, they would soon effect their object. But they must not be contented with that, but each one must induce his friends to act in the seine manner, and then they would be trampled upon no more. He had much pler.sure in moving the resolution. Mr. McaPity, as one of the drones of society, seconded the resolution, for he was glad to see the working men assuming a proper position. lie trusted that upon the day on which there was to be a gewgaw precession in Westminster, they might have one cf their own of a nobler nature. They might have the six Dorchester victims adorning a procession, in a large waggon, and surrounded by implements of husbandry; and then Loveless and his comrades might look as proudly as any who would ligure in the other place.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. COBBETT and Mr. NORMAN spoke to the resolution, which, like the other, was passed unanimously. Thanks were then voted to Mr. Saul, for his services in the chair, as well as in his office of Treasurer of the Committee. Thanks were also proposed to be given to Mr. Murphy, both for his conduct in Marylebone and the general support he gave to the cause of Unions, which were agreed to, and the meeting broke up. GLASGOW WATER-WORKS. (FROM A CORICESF ONDENT.) WtDNESDIY, May 9.—This day the Committee OR this Bill (which excites great interest in London from the Tory complexion of the Com mittee, led on by Sir G. Sinclair), came to a resolution reversing the re , solution of yestf-rday, which was, to allow the Opposition to go into evi dence that a gravitation supply of water purified by settling in a great reservoir was both better and cheaper than to lay out a great additional capital in pumping impure water from the Clyde, and that gravitation would continue the present constant supply at all hours, while the projected monopoly threatened to limit the supply, and thus force upon Glasgow an expense for cisterns of '..'00,000/., which would more than defray the cost of a constant supply of good water by gravitation. After the decision of this morning, excluding this enquiry, which had been yesterday allowed, the most important engineering evidence provided by the opposers, on the paint of gravitation, was of course shut out, and Mr. J. Boyle Gray was then examined, and gave most interesting evidence, chewing, from a laborious investigation of the books of the two Water Companies, that they had from the very be ginning held out to the public, by various advertisements, assurances of a constant and sufficient supply of good water, and down to the period of their illegal compact, in 1833, when they got Glasgow ex cepted from Lock's Bill, they had frequently advertised apologies for any local or temporary interruption of the constant supply occasioned by replacing or repairing pipes, &c. Mr. Gray detailed from their minutes their advice from eminent lawyers, that their compact and any pre. tended sales by the one to the other were illegal. Mr. Gray's examine. tion will be resumed to-morrow. In the course of some objections by the promoters to the course of Mr. Gray's examination by Mr. Hill, Mr. ANDREWS, the Counsel for the Bill, characterised the opposition as proceeding from personal, paltry, and pitiful motives. Mr:Dor•CLAs rose, and addressed the Committee, stating, that if the Glasgow gentlemen representing the numerous population whose peti. Lion against the Bill was now on the table, were not protected by the Committee from such aspersions, they had the spirit to assert themselves. Mr. ANDREWS instantly declared that he was not aware that Mr. Douglas was in the room. Mr. DOUGLAS rejoined, " I cannot accept that, for Mr. Andrews is not so dull as not to know that I am here supporting the petition and instructing the Counsel." Mr. Gray's examination afterwards proceeded for the remainder of the day without any interruption from Mr. Andrews. SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—There is a question of historical importance to every real Re. former, an answer to which would be very acceptable to that body gene. rally. What has been the treatment of the original promoters of lie. form ? Have they received the honours and thanks due to them for the result of their labours—or have they reaped that neglect common to all who sow their seed on the ungrateful soil of popular favor ? Ala,: we fear so—loss of caste, fines, persecution and imprisonment ; but what avail all these unless backed by ceaseless agitation ? Nought : Well does Mr. O'Connell know the profound meaning and value of his war-cry, " Agitate, agitate, agitate." By his constant intrusion on the attention of the Public, what is he ? A Demigod :I Yet could we mention one who has the strongest claims to public attention, and public sympathy; one who has- fought and suffered for " the many"—whose reward has been " sorrow and imprisonment"—whom, now sitting down under his accumulated wrongs, a Ministry are bold to persecute, because he does not interrupt their quiet with " agitation"—neither carrying a county in spite of them, nor making a Corn Exchange " ape their Parliament." To obtain redress from a Lord John Russell, must it ever be necessary to march a Trades' Union to Downing-street ? Or, will he, as he professess, " redress grievances where their existence is substantiated ?" We place a case before him. In the year 1819 reform principles first began to make head in England. Government feared a repetition of the scenes enacted in neighbouring France, and every popular expres sion of feeling was looked on with a jaundiced eye. Tinder these cir cumstances Sir Charles Wo!seley, of Wolseley (the head of one of our oldest Saxon famine") was induced to take the chair at a reform meet ing at Stocicport, whither he happened to have gone as a spectator. The meeting was voted illegal by the Quidnuncs of the day !! The principals were brought to account—tried—convicted—(in this par ticular instance. oa the evidence of a common burglar ! !!)—ancl Sir Charles was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ! Eighteen months imprisonment, for what would now be honour, and renown, and profit. Times are changed : for him who can make most agita tion—who can cause the Guards an extra six hours duty—or in any way make "the Ten" of Downing street tremble, there is a bowing of the knee and great worship. Probity and political honesty are bugbears Sir ; how many votes can you command, or how many sturdy vagabonds can you excite to revolt ?" These are now the only acknow ledged titles to consideration. Wi:l it be credited that the gentleman whom we have mentioned was not only struck oft - the Commission of the Peace for conduct which would, if repeated to-morrow, indisputably call for and receive a service of plate : but " Tempora mutantur et nos NON' mutamur in illis"---his name has never been yet restored to the Magistracy ! any application to that effect having been disregarded; and the " Friend of the People"—him whom O'Connell himself, ex cathedra, at a meeting of the Association, pointed out as the " best Reformer in England"—has Leen s•) shamefully neglected that, at his advanced age, he is still made to feel the indignity put upon bim by a Castlereagh Government. Is my Lord J. Russell aware of this ? We LONDON: THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1838. We hare been favoured with a communication on the subject of 'that foulest of social abominations the Slave Trade, which has startled us more than all the revelations hitherto made relative to this most inhuman traffic. The substance of it may be given in a few words. It is, we believe, generally known that slavers when captured are brought to Cuba, where they are declared lawful prize, and their human cargo committed to the care of the Lieutenant- Governor, whose duty it is to direct their conveyance back to their own country. The instant the slaves are landed they are placed in an hospital ; slave-dealers are invited to examine them, to whom they are actually sold at the highest price, and smuggled on board vessels cruizing for that pur pose in the. Mexican Gulf ; and when a demand is subse quently made for them by our Consul, forged certificates of their death from yellow fever are produced, signed and coun ter-signed by the Spanish authorities ! This statement may seem improbable to many—yet we have evidence for it, of the truth of which we cannot permit ourselves to enter tain the shadow of a doubt. We are assured that four fifths of the slaves landed at Cuba are thus disposed of ; and in this way is England made in some sort accessary to the providing a supply of slaves for the United States! Surely a question so important will not be suffered to escape unheeded the notice of Parliament. What we de mand in the first place is a searching inquiry into the truth of this statement ; which if found correct, ought to be fol lowed by the severest reprehension of the bad faith of the Spanish Government, whose promised anti-slavery co-ope ration has been purchased at a cost of about half a million stcrling. The Bill for allowing Foreign Corn to be ground in bond was thrown out last night at the instance of the Mar quis of CHANDOS. Two hundred and twenty landed gen tlemen decided that our ships shall not bring corn hereto be ground by our m ill ers , i n or d er t o su pply our colonies with flour ground in the country ; but when the colonies want flour, as they do continually, they must send to Prussia or the United States for it, and must pay Prussian or Ameri can millers, while our own millers are standing idle with their hands in the pockets. Why did these two hundred and twenty gentlemen, who are entrusted with power solely that they may promote the public welfare, give such a murderous vote ? Because, as Mr. HEArticoTE was afraid fraud would be committed, our ships would be victualled with this foreign flour, and it would be smuggled into the country. But why should our shipowners and millers commit frauds to obtain foreign flour? It is so much cheaper, says Mr. HEATHCOTE. He and his friends then oppose a law, because there is a possibility that our ships and our people will get biscuit and: flour cheaper than at present. Is it a cr i me t h en to lower the pr i ce o f com modities, and to get them as cheaply as possible; to that the enlightened two hundred and twenty Members of the House of Commons sought to prevent it by legislation. The landed gentlemen themselves, both by words and deeds, protest the very contrary. They buy everything as cheap as they can, and they praise those inventions and improvements, such as the steam-engine and power-loom which give them cheap silks, cheap cottons, and cheap conveyances, But they will not allow others to follow their example, and buy cheap ; they lay legal impediments in their way, and cry out " fraud" if these impediments be surmounted. To produce commodities cheaply, or at a small cost of labour, is the very end and aim of all the discoveries of science, and all the inventions of art ; but in the case of foreign corn cheapness is offered to us, and the landowners will not allow us to profit by it, because they have corn to sell. So far do they carry their abhorrence of cheap corn, tbat they will not even allow our millers to grind foreign corn least, perchance, a few grains of it should go to feed our seamen, or appease the hunger of our labourers. Sir JOHN TYRRELL admitted that Colonel SEALE's Bill would give employment to surplus machinery and labour. Here, then, by the admission of the landowners, two great benefits would be obtained by the Bill --_a cheapening of food to some parties, and the employment of our people to fraud in others a profit ; but they would not allow the Bill to pass, lest it should give rise to fraud. How careful th ey are of our morals ! They plunder us by a processi,onfnilnawst—iy,therenyebiley-, wickedly,have, as Aalnr.doppressivly, ,, and BROTHERTON e told them, call that which only partially breaks through the net of their injustice. We do not see anything very novel in the arguments by which the selfish landowners maintained their star vation law with the utmost rigour ; but the public will be amused by the declaration of the Mar quis of CHANDOS, that the agriculturists (meaning the landlords) are doing well, and deprecate legislative interfe rence. But do not all who batten on the spoils of the public say the same ? They all wish to be let alone. Th at is the de mand of the pickpocket and the swindler,in dragging t h e sharp po lice officeror the ruined tradesmen persist dragging the cul prit to the bar of justice. The manufacturmgand the commer cial classes, all who eat bread, in fact, and are not landowners or not under their influence, complain of the landowners for wickedly curtailing the supply of food, stopping trade, and limiting employment; and when the starving people and the hampered manufacturers endeavour to obtain a little improvement, the landowners, by the mouth of the Marquis of CHANDOS, tell them, " We, the oppressors, are very well off, and desire only to be let alone." That is no doubt true, but the statement should stimulate the people to put an end to the repose of the oppressors. At the same time it is not true that the agricultural in terest is well off. In another part of our paper will be found an account of a public meeting, to form a new Agri cultural Society, from which it is evident that the Agriculturists disagree amongst themselves, and are anxious to improve their condition. The object of the meeting, at which Earl SPENCER presided, was to form a Society to promote agricultural improvement, because England—mark that, men of Kent and Sussex—is not cul tivated as well as Scotland. Several persons present, how ever, said that the meeting tended to mislead, and would injure the farmer ; and after a contest with the landlords, they withdrew to form a rival Society. The agricul turists, however highly delighted the Marquis of CHAN nos may be at getting rent paid for his stony land in Buckinghamshire by taxing the people's food, are by no means contented, and would probably find their condition improved by that very legislative interference which the Marquis deprecates. We noticed, the day before yesterday, the close union which now exists between ultra-Tories and Conformers, as exemplified by Lord CHANDOS' presiding at the dinner to be given to Sir ROBERT PEEL. Sir ROBERT last night ratified the alliance, by giving both his vote and his speech to the Marquis. He now goes the whole hog, and avows himself the leader of the party which aims at impoverishing as well as enslaving the people. It was rather shabby, both of Sir E. KNATCHBULL and Sir ROBERT PEEL, to vote directly contrary to their former votes and speeches on this subject ; but they could not help themselves. The lordly Marquis who insists on b cinglet alone, commands too many votes for them to disobey him, and they acted as he directed, on condition of having his sup port on other questions. Sir ROBERT PEEL, after a long resistance, has in fact succumbed to the bigotted Ultras, and will henceforward hold power on condition of being their vassal. The citizens of London have generously and humanely_ resolved not to be outdone by any portion of their fellow countrymen, in the zeal and perseverance of their'efforts, to obtain for the apprenticed negroes the so cruelly withheld right of immediate, unqualified emancipation. Notwith standing the crow ded and imposing meetings so recently held at Exeter-Hall, a numerous and influential body of citizens assembled yesterday at the City of London Tavern, to re-petition the two Rouses of Parliament for the uncon ditional redemption of the coloured race. As a report of the proceedings is given in another part of The Sun, we refe , . our readers to it for those details which might appro priately enough be inserted here, were the question one o those upon which it could be supposed that nineteen twentieths of the people of the Linitcd Kingdom enter tained two opinions. But the citizens of London have not yet done half of what they have the power of doing. Let parochial meetings be called, and every parish send its own petition to Parliament. An example so worthy of being generally followed will not be lost upon the country Mr. WAKLEY brought forward his threatened motion on he Copyright question last night in the House of Com mons. The ostensible object of the Hon. Member was to prevent Mr. Sergeant Tar.rooßD'S Bill from proceeding a ny farther ; but we can scarcely persuade ourselves that he was sincere in his hostility - to the measure. Had he wished to convince the House and the public of the abso lute necessity of an extension of the term of Copyright for the protection of authors, he could not have taken a course better adapted to effect that purpose. If his speech were not intended to favour the Bill, it was a blunder from be ginning to end. Mr. WAKLEY wisely refrained from entering into the question of right. This point has been finally settled by the general —we might say universsl—acknowledgment, that an author has a right at common law in his works. But the Honourable Member for Finsbury laboured hard to show that this was not a beneficial right, unless it was limited to a very small number, the smallest possible number of years. " Before the year 1709," says Mr. WAKLEY, " Copyright was deemed perpetual, and subsequent decisions of judges confirmed that ; but what were the effects of a perpetual Copyright ; they were seen in the limited scale of the works of that period." Now the Honourable Gentleman could not have been more serious is this argument than in the rest of his very amusing speech ; for the obvious cause of the limited sale was not the perpetuity of the copyright but the smallness of the number of those persons who took plea sure in reading. And in illustration of this we may adduce the fact which publishers are not very anxious to set prominently before the public, that since 1814, when Copyright was extended from 14 to 28 years, books have been much cheaper than they ever were before that period. And why ?—simply because readers have, so multiplied, in consequence of the spread of education that it is the interest of publishers to look for remune ration, rather from a very small profit on a large num ber of copies, than from a very large profit on a small number. Such has been the effect of the partial extension of Copyright in a reading age, and were Copyright made perpetual by statute, as it ought in justice to be such would still be the effect, notwithstanding the melancholy and disinterested_ forebodings of publishers and their abettors. The allusion which Mr. WAKLEY made to Sir WALTER SCOTT was, in our opinion, quite out of place. What can it matter to the question at issue what sums Sir WALTER SCOTT received for his works ? If he received a larger sum of money for his works than other men, it is only saying that he did his work better. Even Mr. WAKLEY professes to say that he does not think so eminent a writer overpaid ; then why drag him forward on this occasion, and comment .upon his love of gain, as if it had neutralised the benefit which not his family ought to have derived from his labours. We are 'not going to defend Sir WALTER from thi. , charge, becaus we do think he requires any defence, but we may be allowed to remark, that when Mr. WAKLEY asserted that " it was a love of gain which led Sir WALTER SCOTT to ruin," he might in csndour have stated, that a love of gain never led Sir WALTER to escape by dishonourable means from the consequences of his imprudence, but, on the con trary, that he affords the noblest instance of a great mind struggling with unconquerable determination and unex ampled effect, to maintain its independence in circum stances which would have overwhelmed any other man. Mr. WAKLEY amused the House by giving a statement of the prices at which Mr. TEGG, the most violent of all the opponents of Mr. TaLrouttn's Bill, has purchased some of the works of the most eminent living authors. This exposure may not perhaps be very agreeable to the feelings of these gentlemen, and may perhaps tend to lower the public estimation of their literary labours ; but how does it strengthen Mr. WAKLEY'S argu ment ? Mr. TEGG, it seems, instructs Mr. WAKLEY to inform the House of Commons, that be gave only nine pence a volume for the unsold stock of Captain MAR RYAT'S works, one shilling for THEODORE HOOK'S, the same for Mr. BULWER'S ; and that this Mr. TEGG has a stock of books purchased in this way amounting to 170,0001. Now, we would ask Mr. WAKLEY whether this is a satis factory proof that literature is in a sound and healthy state ; or whether some stronger inducement than exists at present is not necessary to induce men of talent to devote them selves to the composition of literary works that may out live the passing day ? Such an inducement we hold an extended Copyright to be, on the same principle that in creased value is given to other kinds of property by in. creased security. But to return to Mr. TEGG. Mr. WAKLEY forgot to tell the House the price at which this hater of Copyrights sold the books which he bought at so cheap a rate. We shall supply the omission. It will be expected, of course, that one who clamours as Mr. TEGG does, about the para mount importance of cheap books, will be satisfied with a very moderate profit on his articles. In his catalogue of this year we find some of Mr. BuLwEa's works bought at Is. a vo lume, priced at as. ; THEODORE HOOK'S, bought at Is., priced at 3s. ; MARRYAT'S works bought at 9d. a volume pr i ce d at ss. 4d. Thus are the pvofessions realized o f those who are so anxious that the public should be supplied with cheap literature ! They have no objections that both authors and public should be fleeced, provided they can get a profit on t h e i r capital of from 200 to 600 per cent. ! The Paris Journals of Tuesday contain no intelligence of any interest. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged on Monday with Railway Bills ; while the Chamber of Peers was occupied with the rejection of Count HAR COURT'S Alien Law Amendment Bill. M. Timm was so ill of inflammation in the throat as to be confined for several days to his apartments. The trial of HUBERT and his accomplices excited not the least attention in the poli- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 0, 138. Annexed are extracts from the Journals : MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share, British Iron Company u.righton Railway Company' 8 9 London and Blackwall Railimy London Grand Junction Railway 5 0% anchester and Birmingham Railway 7 84 Northern and Eastern Railway Company North Midland Railway Company. 33 40 Thames Haven Railway Company 5 Ditto Unregistered 2)6 1% Asphalte, Claridge's Patent Do. Liverpool Do British Do. Polonceau 2 3% 314 Do. United States 2 3%% Australian Company 27% 4 iii Bastenne and G a ujac Bitum en Colonial Bank London and Westminster Bank 2O 21 London Joint Stock Bank lO 10% Mexican and South American 5 6M 6 National Loan Fund 24 3 National Provincial Bank of England (New) lO 10% HALF-PAST ONE. The Dutch Mail has arrived, of yesterday's date, bringing the Amsterdam prices, Two-and-a-half-per Cents, 54 3-16ths ; Five per Cents., 101 i. Consols are not so good as in the early part of the morning, when they were done at 94i f ; at present they are 941, both for money and time; Exchequer Bills, 73 71; India Bonds, 81 83; Bank Stock, 2051; India Stock, 271 k. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active steady at 20i I , with Con. pons; Portuguese 34 ; Three per Cents. 22 % 3} ; Brazilian 76 3 ; Columbian 271 8 ; Dutch 24, 54k. In the Share Market most of the prices are lower. Good deal doing in the Asphalte and Joint Stock Banking Shares ; Liverpool Asphalte par, Polonccau 14 pm. ; United States 1 ; Bastenne 1 % pm. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 94¢. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING:PRIOES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 90 54 i India Stock 271 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons 94% Ditto Old Annuiti es — 13,,' per Cent 101% Ditto New Annuities 3 per Cent - Red 101% Ex. Bills, 1,000/ .2d 71 pm. New 3 1 4 per Cent 102, Ditto Long Annuities to expi re lßlo '1 71 pm. Jan. 1860 Oct. 14 15-1 f India Stock for Act 271 Jan. 1860 FOREIGN FUNDS. 'Portuguese Ronds, 5 per cent.. Ditto. New Ditto . . — Prussian, 5 per cent Igussian Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, Metallic lnish, 5 per cent., 2011, Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent 101% Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayr, s, 6 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent Colombians, 6 per cent , . Spa ~.,„ Ditto 1821 27% Ditto, Consolidated Danish, 3 per cent 74% French, 5 per cent. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f —c. Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent --f. --c. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 butch, 2% per cent. Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent. (CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.-(THIS DAY). Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 4% Great Western Railway 93 London and Brighton Illilway London and Blackw a ll R a il way London and So u th amp t on R a il way London Grand Junction Railway.. O% Northern and Eastern Railway - 7 North Midland Railway 4O York an! North Midland R a il way l2 National Loan Fund 3 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(TRIS DAY DeAL, MAN N.E., fine weather.—Arrived and proceeded for the River, the Unanimity, Herbert, from Oporto; and Diligent, Great, from Guernsey. Came down from the River and proceeded, the Speculator, Munns, for South Australia; Monkey, Bains, for Lisbon ; Ann, Chambers, for Quebec; Lady H. Barham, for Jamaica; John, Forrest, for Jamaica; President, Chadwick, for New York; and Georgetown, for Demerara. Powrsmotrru, MAI,' 9 —Wind E.N.E. to S.S.E., fine.—Arrived the Frederick Wilhelm 111., Bohrendt, from Dantzic. PLYMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind E.—Arrived off, the Concord, Brom. head, from Odessa. FALMOUTH, MAY B.—Wind E., fresh breezes and line.—Arrived the Felix, Pedersen, from Longsound. LIVERPOOL, MAY 9.—Wind Northerly, very light —Arrived the Kaira, Fairciough, from Marsala . ; Post Boy, from Venice; and Albion, from Figueira. Arrived of, the Robert, from Savanilla ; John Aikey, from Tobago; and James and Jane, from the Mediterranean. Sailed, the Eliza and Martha, Tregarthen, for Gibraltar; Arab, M`Queen, for Cronstadt; Perricles, Stovey, for Cronstadt ; and Vrow Henriette, for Rotterdam. S►LCOMBE, MAY 9 . —Arrived off, the Arabian, from Charleston. JERSEY, MAY 7.—Arrived the Loyal William, Fauvel, from Alicant ; and Phmnix, Burton, from Gottenburg. GLOATER MAY 9 . --Arrived the Fly, Toper, from Naples; Mary White, Allen, from Anega. „_. CLYDE, MAY 7.—Arrived the Hebe, Malcolm, from Barbadoes. DUBLIN, MAY S.—Arrived the John and William from Benicarlo. Burewtcg, MAY 7 . —Arrived the Fortuna, Kell, of Stettin, Atlas Kunon, from Memel. Humana, MAY 9.—Arrived the Neptunus, Bremer, from Neustadt. YARMOUTH, MAY 9 . — Arrived the Pauline, Shannon, from Stettin. The Jeannette, Bodeman, was lost 12th February, of Campo' (Bra zils), crew saved. The Eliza Saunders, Bally, and Eliza, Nowlan, from Liverpool ; and Zulieka, Scott, from London, have arrived at Syria, with damage to their cargoes. It is confidently stated at the Military Club houses that a grand review of the household troops, by her Majesty in per son, will take place in Hyde Park, on the 18th of next month, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. All the envoys ex. traordinary from the European courts will be present, Ind it will he, it is expected, the most imposing military spectacle seen in this country since the visit of the Allied Sovereigns in 1814. tical circles of Paris. We subjoin a regular list of them extracted from the official indictment :- 1. Laure Grouvelle, 35 years of age, of no profession. 2. Louis Hubert, 23 years of age, currier. 3. Jacob Steuble, 22 years of age, journeyman mechanical instrument maker. 4. Jean Vincent Giroud, 35 years of age, tradesman's clerk. 5. Antoine Napoleon Annat, 35 years of age, currier. 6. Leon Didier Valentin, 24 years of age, stu dent in law. 6. Jules Armand Marie Leproux, 29 years of age, supple mentary judge of the civil tribunal of Vervins. 8. Amedee Hercule Leopold de Vauquelin, 46 years of age, proprietor, resident at Algy, near Falaise. Letters from Alexandria, received at Marseilles, are of the 7th April. At that date there was not a single regiment remaining in the city, and the garrison duty was done by marines. The general opinion at Alex andria was, that the troubles in Syria had never given any serious alarm to the Pacha, but that he had eagerly used them as a pretext for send ing troops to Asia. Brussels and German papers have been received this morning, in which the Strasen affair, and the squabbles between Prussia and the Holy See, form the leading sub jects of conjectural comment. As they have neither no velty of idea, nor argumentative force to recommend them, no apology is necessary for excluding them from our columns. The following brief announcement is, however, important : " We stated some months ago that M. Van Weyer, our ambassador at London, was commissioned to carry on negociations at London, with a view to introduce the improvements solicited in the mails between Bel gium and London. These negociations are on the eve of being con cluded to the satisfaction of both parties, and we ire able already to affirm that there will be a daily exchange of mails between Ostend and Dover as soon as the iron railroad from Ghent to Ostend shall be opened." FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MAY 8. Five per Cents., 10if. 21e. sc. 11.81.. Three per Cents., 81f. sc. 80f 90c. Bank Actions, 2,700 f. 2,t1 90f. Bente tle Nr.plcs, 100 f. 90c. Roman Five per Cents., 100 w. • Spanish Actives, 21 ko. Belgian Loan, 1034%. Belgian Bank, 1,445 f. flaytian Loan, 485 f. 487 f. 50c. EXCHANOR ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 45c.; money, 25f. 4Z4 c. nree months, paper, 25f. 32c. ; money, 251. 30c. LATEST PRICES. Five per Cents. 1081. 25c. Three per Cents., 80f. 95c. Bank Actions, 2,690 f. Romans, 101 Belgian Loan, 103%. Belgian Bank, 1,445 f. Haytian Loan, 4871. 50e, Spanish Actives, 21 14. Letters and papers from Madrid to the 2d inclusive, have Mme to hand. As a reward for the defeat of NEGRI the Spanish Cabinet has had the unaccountable stupidity to honour ESPARTERO with the Commandership-in-Chief of the whole of the Spanish forces ! We are all but confident that this brilliant affair—the military harvest of a year's manceuvering—will turn out to be not so important as nix- TER's victory at Almaden, for which he was rewarded with disgrace. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—This Company, after calling up 65/. per Share, has easily taken up on loan the 833,333/. Gs. Bd. as empowered by the Act ; and is now successfully borrowing at 44 per cent. the remaining 35/. per Share, precluding the possibility of further calls being made on the Shareholders till after the expiration of the five, seven, and ten years' terms of the loan debentures have expired. This is the only case of a Company having been able to borrow so early ; and, although they do not want the money just yet, the Directors are quite wise in availing themselves of the present facilities in the money market. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. It does not contain any information of consequence respecting the affairs of Luxembourg. It is reported in the French papers "That fear was en tertained that some hostile movement on part of the Belgians would take place in that quarter." We still continue without any arrivals from the Westward. Three American packets are now due. The prevailing opinion among the American merchants is, that the Great Western or Sirius steamers will arrive from New York before the American packets, as one of them is expected by Monday next. The Mexican and Havannah packet is also due, as well as the Brazil. This delay causes a great stagnation in commercial affairs. The British funds continue buoyant. Consols opened this morning at the closing prices 94k i for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 71 73 pm. ; India Bonds 81 83; Bank Stock 2051 ; India ditto 271) 271 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active maintains the closing price, 20f 1 ; Portuguese 341 5 ; Three per Cent. 22f 31 ; Brazilian 76k i ; Belgian 1011 ; Mexican 28k ; Columbian 27i 28 ; Dutch 21 per Ct. 54 % f, ; Passive 4% 5 ; Deferred 814 i. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. :5e.".... 3 per Cs•nt. Cons. - 3 7 14 par Cant. ..... ... . Oat() He' 101 % 1, 6 14 1 New Ditto — New 314 per Ceut..... ..... 102Y< 5 %' 3 per Cent. A tinultrs, 1751 — New 5 per Cent... — Exch. Bilks, .El,‘ O'' 73 71 pm. Bask Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto ...............500 73 71 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 15% Ditto Small Oct. 10, nrisg 14 15-16 ' Ditto Commercial Jan. 5, 1301 — Ditto Advertised —pm lan. 5, 1830 ......... .......... Bank ;'took for Acc0unt........Acc0unt........ April 5, ISM. — I India Stock for Account 2714 J...n. 5, 1 870 ---I ConsolsConsols for Acconnt 9 4 1,4 % 8% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ROLLS' COTIRT.-(THIS DAY.) This being the l as t d ay of Term. the MASTZA of the no-Ls toy' motions. WANDSFORD V. LORD ORMONDE. The object of the motion in this ease was to restrain the defendant_ James, Marquis of Ormonde., foom prosecuting a suit in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, by which his Lordship was seeking to recover very large estates to the amou n t o f 10,0004 a_ ear a nd which at present were in the posseFsion of hi s b rot h er, the Hon. Mr. W a ndsford. estates in question were of three classes. There were, first, what wet), called the Wandsford Est a t es, w hi c h or i g i nally belonge d to John Ea rl Wandsford, and which co ns i ste d of estates in Yorksh i re, Kilkenny, C o r k, and Clare ; . the second class were what were called the Ormonde Estates, and which were in the counti es o f Ti pperary and K i lkenn y ; and the t hird class were called the Southweli Estates. Mr. PEMBERTON was opening the case on behalf the plaintiff when We were obliged to leave. The MASTER of the ROLLS will to-morrow sit at his Court in Cl'hartn cery.lane, and after the solicit ors are sworn in, w i ll proce ed with o Causes. will not believe it ; his principles ought to be too liberal to allow his sanctioning or lending himself to any persecution of this kind. What ? Support the decree of 1819, which dismissed from the Magistracy a gentleman whose conduct would have undoubtedly returned him for Westminster in 18321 Inconsistent as impossible! Lord John Is not aware of the facts of this case, and we call on him as a real Reformer to investigate and to in. stantly annul these monstrous proceedings; showing his sincerity by giving positive orders to restore Sir Charles Wolseley, " one of our oldest Reformers," to his proper position amongst the Magistracy of his county. Is he waiting for the Coronation, to grant as a boon what he ought to give as a right ? We will not believe it. The Dorchester labourers were unjustly punished. In six months popular indignation expressed by the strong arm of the Trades' Union, brought them back! Surely, my Lord John Russell does not mean to put Sir Charles Wolseley, after twenty years unjust punishment, on a ower footing than these men? A NTI-TYRA NNUS. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0rning........ 9 minutes after 3 I Evening 27 minutes after 3 LORD CLARENDON'S LIFE. This day was published in 3 vols. Bvo. with Portrait, and Fac-similes, price 21. Bs. 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GENERAL AVERAGE.PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, „f Lbe Foe the Week ended May 4 1838 made up from. the: ReturnY, Inspectors in the different Citiesand 'fawns in Englam; and Wales.Wales.ver Imperial Quarter. Wheat (303. Od. I Oats Barley "03 Id. 1 Rye MPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES V I I;: 4° 0 1 d . ) T EP H ee E aasnes s : l : X :::: W 24 : :;ll-1-4811: P Wheat s‘:s. 104, OatsRECEDING Bark y t t ,ll.:. 10d. 1 Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN . Wheat.... 2Bs. Bd. Oats • 15s. 3d. Beans ........ Barley lBs. 4d. 1 Rye 2ls • 91 I "ease ......... THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY)• HUNGERFORD MARKET. 12e , Fish to-day plentiful and c h eap. T ur b ot 3s. to 10s. and 11 5 . an- Lobsters still are 4s. 6d. for good. Cod Is. and is. 6d. to ss. Sole , to 3s. per pair for large and good. 111, - at much as quoted on Tue 93 .,„ 3 ' 1 ; and busimss rather brisker owing to colder weather. Vegetables 1,1_,,t"" as last quoted.—Hay and cl over cont i nue to fetch former rates of, fry 90s. to 114 s. per load. HAY MARKET. are The supplies were moderate to-day, but still far advanced ag We in May, the demand continues good, and this keeps up prices, vi ", 6o , except Straw, which i s 2 s. per load lower, are unaltered. Straiv,:,_ to 40s. and 425. p er load Meadow Hay, 85s. to 100 s. ; Clover iv" 100 s. to 115 s. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C. very flat, at 485.6 d. on the spot, and 445. 6d. for deliverl. FISARKET. a Supply abundant of all kinds, H ex M cept Soles and Lobsters, and pri gd4 lower. Turbot, 3s. to 12s. and 13s. ; Cod, Is. to 4s. and 55.; 5 13 " . " s; to 38. per pair for goo d . As much as 114 were given for 40 wester Mackarel, 3d. and 6d. each. DRY SALTERY MARKET. Gi 1130 Spanish Indigo has decli ne d I d , to 2d. per lb. at public sale. n e 4 to is 3s. to ss. per cent, lowe r; m i ddling and fine orange fetching 1225. 6d. per cwt. Safflower is also 3s. to ss. per cwt. lower bYP uU sale. Some kinds of Lac Dye have risen Id. per lb. MARKETS FOR MERCHANDIZE. Silk i 3 Metals continue very languid, and prices without variation. but without business, and prices merely nominal. Wool secure' very little business, a n d p r i ces are unvar i ed. In Canadian and Baltic P i ro/ duce there is nothin g s ti rr i ng o f any moment. All parties are i t it looking to the United St a t es, an d i t w i ll not be until trade revives,,,i will revive here. L MARKETS. To-day there were but COLONIA two small parcels of Coffee, One British Pa c tation, and the other St. Doming.); and some East India and Jae' to Ginger for public sale. The Colonial Markets have now relapsed, - 1 „ .. their former dulness, and the disposition to i..ilrchase is very ° f r it. We do not, however, quote Coffee lower, but it aid not sell with sP re j, Ginger when we left fetched about previous rates, but were r '' . , l r n sl , lower. The sales of to-day are too insignificant to affect or i " - •dly. a criterion for the market. British Plantation Sugar sells 13 ", Su „ f l io but prices are unvaried . Refined fetches 345. for fine crushed. , Coffee privately realizes former prices. Tea has a tendency to de c ' j ; o g i' The imports continue. The chief sales for to morrow :are 5,000 bag e , Mauritius Sugar ; 150 c as k s new Barbadoes, some Ginger, Sal t P e . say 1,235 bags, 9 ca s k s o f M ace, 5 barrels Jamaica Coffee, and 2 00 bale of Mocha. LIVERPOOL CTTON MARKE, MAY 9. r We have to report LIVERPO a considOerably improvedbu T siziess, and last tt o de prices were spi r it e dl y ma i nta i ned. The entire transactions am °slll 9 5a 4,700 bags. 100 Bahia, 7%d. 8 %d. ; 60 Pernam, aid. g d '; Surat, 4 Md. Sid. ; 4,290 American, 5 9 for Orleans. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• The Tria CHES TER RACES h with 50 , MONDA Y added, MAT by the• ,2 7. 50313; ot l Stakes of 15 cove. eac, Committee ; th ree yrs , 6 st. 4 1b ; four, Bst. 61b ; 95t. 0 0 ' six and aged, 9 s t. 61b ; mares an d geldings allowed 2 1 b• round. Mr. E. Peel's gr. c. Saul, 3 yrs Mr. Worthi ngon ' s b. e. B att l edore, d. by FilhoGia WhitehousePuta,3s Lord Derby's b. f. Miss Bowe 4 yrs . Sir T. Stanley's b. c. Pammon, 4 yrs ...................... "' • 4lb; A Produce S wee p s t a k es o f 50 sovs. each, 11. ft. ; colts, 60 '•_ a rea fillies, Bst. ; 3lb s . a ll owe d to untr i ed stallions, or out . o i r whose produ ce h ave not won, b ut not to both. Two mil'one,l Mr. F. R. Pric e ' s b. or b r. e. C apt. Pops, by Priam M• Sir R. W. Bulkeley's b. f. Piccottee by Teniers ............... ••• Lord Westminster's b. f. by Pantaloon ................................... The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sows. in specie, added to a 11 , i f de." Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each; 10 ft., and 5 sovs. ft. 00 , Y n o, dared on or before th e I s t F e b ruary. Throe to accept or__, race. To start at th e C ast l e - po l e, run twice round, and en of the Coming-in-ch a i r . S econ d h orse to receive 25 sovs. out the stakes. Mr. T. Walters's br. h. King Cole, 5 yrs ......... MAO( Lord Eglinton's b. g. The Potentate by Langar, 6 yrs Mr. Mr. Mostpn's b. m. Birdlime, aged Fourteen started, only three placed. Seven declared and pay sovs. forfeit each, and six drew and paid ten sovs. each. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added by the Stand Ceo mittee, for horses that never won before the day of entry for tb Plates ; three yrs, 6st. 121 b; four, B s t. 21b ; eve, Bst. 81b and aged. est. 121; mares allowed 21b. Lord Warwick's b. c. by Brutandorf 3 yrs ............ Dodo•son I " Mr. Purcell's br. c. L a t e Bi r d, 3 yrs . Sir T. Stanley's ch. c. by Bay Malton, 3 yrs 3 d Capt. Lamb's ch. c . M e t a l, 4 yrs Eleven started, only four placed. TUESDAY. ti Her Majesty's Pl a t e o f 100 gu i neas ; three yrs old, 7st. 21b ; fo rams d,, 9st. 21b; five, lO s t ; s i x an d aged, 10st. 51b. Thrice r o rather more than three miles. Mr. Bradley's b. h. E xora bl e, 5 yrs it „ orn e. , ; Mr. Barrow's b. m. Catherina, aged. Mr. Cooke's br. h. Red Rover, aged .................. . ..................... Mr. Bellis's br. h. Seventy-four bY Memnon, 5 yrs ........... Mr. Roylance's br. h. Master of the Rolls, 5 yrs„ ............... 6 Mr. G. Dawsons's ch. c. Aimwell by Actxon, yrs A Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, for two years old ; colts, Bst fillies, Bst. 21b. Half a mile. 1 Sir T. Stanley' s b. c. Apothecary by Physiciati.....Templexm— Mr. Mostyn's b. c. Papineau by Emancipation .................... 5 Mr. T. Walters's ch. c. Sir Mark, brother to Rococo by Cetus••• Four paid. ;• for ~ Sixty Gui neas ( c l ear) the gift of the Members for the kil'olto three year s o ld co l ts Get. 81b., fillies, Est. 61b., four years 0, - n ee , • Bst. 41b., filli es B st. 11b . Heats, once round and a dista Mr. E. Pe e l' s gr. c. S au l, 3 yrs ................ G. Whitehouse 1.% 0 Mr. James' s b. c . Ji m Crow by Waverley, 4 yrs 0 5; Mr. Arrowsmith's ch. f. Margravine by Margrave, 3 yrs Mr. Marlow's ch. f. Fair Play, 3 yrs ......... ........... .... ••• Mr. Roberts' s b. 1. Volusia, 3 yrs .............................. •• 5 or Sir T. Stanley's gr. f. Violet, 4 yrs .......................... ••2_,„„ei -- ----- SILVER PLATE.—Purchasers may select fr ° ,,, lll „of variety of patt erns o f SILVER SPOONS' and FORKS , 5 ..7 1; " - S.A' the patterns havi ng muc h mer i t and novelty ; at T. Cals'obillr VORY'S, Silvers m ith, W atc h maker, and Goldsmith,47, Cor London, (Seven doors from Gracechurch street.) tel t* The best wro ug ht Sil ver S poons and Forks, Fiddle Pat is. 2d. per ounce ; the King's Pattern is. 4d. per ounce- m at The following ar e th e we i g h ts recommended, but the article 9 • ‘t be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce Fiddle Pattern oz. s. 0. X. 1. d. King's Pattern oz. SA. i l3 12 table spoons 30 at 7 2...10 15 0 12 table 5p00n5...40 at 7 4....4 JO 4 12 dessert ditto 20 7 2... 7 V 4 12 dessert ditt0...20 7 4 •••• i i 13 'l2 table forks ...30 7 2...10 15 0 12 table forks ...40 7 4...',, JO 0 12 dessert ditto '..0 7 2... 7 3 4 12 dessert ditto V 6 7 4... i 8 0 2. gravy spoons 10 7 2.., 311 8 / gravy spoons It '1 4... 4 S 0 1 soup ladle 10 7 2... 311 8 1 soup ladle 12 7 4... A l 4 0 4 sauce ditto —lO 7 5... 316 8 4 sauce ditto l2 710 . - 6 4 salt spoons (gilt strong) 1 0 0 4 salt ditto (strong gilt) ... 'j 8 $ 1 fish slice 5 0 3 9 12 teaspoons _lO 7 8_ 3 15 016 9 12 tea spoons _1.4 710 - 1 1 0 1 pair sug ar t ents ..........•• fitted, The ground floor, also the first, second, and third floors, a re ,D t te* up as Show R ooms , t o conta i n a large stock of Silver and ' d' Goods, Jewelle r y, W a t c h es, &c. ; and purchasers will find rna3l, ad' vantages, both in respect of Price and variety, at this Establisl y ttta 1\.8.----A pamphlet c on t a i n i ng a li st of Prices of Plate, for Goods, Watch es , Cl oc k s, & c., may be had gratis, or will Pe warded in answer to a post-paid application. B IR TR S. At Edinburgh, on the 4th inst., the lady of Captain. Gibs 7th Dragoon Guards, of a son. At Copenhagen, on th e 29 t h ult., the Countess Datrneskiold SO' soe, of a son. t he On the 7th inst., at Chart Lod ge , near Sever P ent, op:ks, -. lady of W m . John Monson, Esq., of a son. per On the sth inst., in Old Bond-street, the lady of J. Esq., of a son. On the 7th inst., i n S out h -street, the lady o f E . stru tt „Vocl• M.P., of a son. So uth. On the 7th in s t., M rs. J ames Woods, of: High-street, wark, of a son. MARRIED. le v ' On the Bth in s t., a t T r i n i ty C hurch, Upper Chelsea, by •-irelliato Montague H aw t rey , John William Henry, secon d son of N 1 bt er Stewart, Esq., of Hammersmith, to Mary Anne, second daug of the late Francis Lovell, Esq., of Sloane -street. Job° On the Bth inst., at Trinity Ch urch, Marylebone, the R ev. th e' Lincoln Gatton, M.A., of Brampton, Hunts, to Louisa Mall', eldest daughter of the late C. Bevan , Esq., of Devonshire-plaFse_sth- On the 3d inst., at the British mbassy, Brussels, Thos. T o y, well, Esq., of Black Castle, county Meath, to Frances Si` a n. third daughter of the lat e H on. and Rev. Arthur Vesey, ton, Queen's County. ri l On the Ist inst., a t St. Mary's, Islington, Henry Hop e ti third son of the l a t e Captain J. Sadler, to Mary Sibella, daughter of H. Owen, Esq., of Abridge. fi late residence, Holloway-place, Holloway, J. DIED. ...,,e, , At his • Esq., aged 60 years, much and deservedly regretted by his t; quil Y and a large circle of friends and acquaintances. q'ho3. On the 7th inst , in Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park , l,. Blizzard, Esq., aged 66, formerly Surgeon London Hosea to the , 00 , On Car d} the 3d inst., in Sackville-street, aged 70, Thomas Riming', Esq., formerly of Doncaster. fo On the 7th inst., in Eaton-square, aged 2, Reginald, only ion the late J. Haigh, Esq., of Whitwill Hall, York. ISt On the 7th in,t., Sherburne Stewart, Esq., formerlyy of the, o f Regime n t o f Lif e G uar d s, an d A i de-de-Camp to t h e l at e Y , to'' Harrington. On the Ist inst., Mary, wife of IL Dockrey, M.D., aged 27. On the 6th inst., at Christ's Hospital, Mrs. Ludlow aged 8 2 -, On the sth inst., at North Cray, Kent, Mr. Jeremiah Glativ" 4 late ..f Great Queen-street, Westminster, aged 76. vidence-row, Fi ns b ur y- sq u are . ~......"."—•-• On the 29th u lt., age d 38, Mary, wife of Mr. T. Baker, of Pro- Flo London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of • 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the count/ of Middlesex.—l'hurKday, May 10, 1838. fls,`rte:) * l7- tf• , ' 0 , 4 1> tc, 4 ) -•••••-• WITH WHICH 4, THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED.